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This is sacred conversation not because we talk of sacred things (everything is already in its way sacred), but because every conversation is in its way sacred, and because every person is likewise sacred, and mostly because every meeting can be sacred.

:- Doug.

Holy Conversation
Holey Conversation
Wholly Conversation

:- Doug.

Where I want to be going just now is to the field of rainbow lights. There I want to see others, to learn to see them, and how they are with one another. How we are with one another is what I might mean as conversation. And “we” is all this, all there is.

:- Doug.

Presently God to me when visible is fog.

But mostly these days God is presence, especially in each other and in the workings and playings of nature.

:- Doug.

This vision is drawing me. That could be a sign of its importance. Or my importuning.

:- Doug.

Find and use
Words with scents

:- Doug.

Vision beyond sight

:- Doug.

In conversing we intertwine.

:- Doug.

In a family setting there is more likelihood that your familiar will not want to “play your little games.” They may be tired, see no point, think you already know them intimately.

:- Doug.

Conversation can be an act of citizenship, of participation, of love.

:- Doug.

Something is happening. Energy is found and focused. Like wind, we can only detect conversation’s effects.

:- Doug.

There is a value to community, with all its irritations and antagonism—perhaps because of these.

:- Doug.

Conversation pulls us
Together to
Larger

:- Doug.

Proposal: We may not be able every day to find truth, but we have a chance at authentic self-doing.

:- Doug.

What were you doing when. . . you heard of 9-11? Kennedy was shot? The Challenger blew up? Your ___ died? You got engaged?

:- Doug.

It is good at times to not define terms so as to let them breathe and grow—growing is both a risk and an opening.

:- Doug.

For now, there is more conversation in my world than yours, 1. Conversation gathers worlds, 2. If we choose, we find profound, 3.

:- Doug.

An advantage for me of seeing conversation so many places as I do is I can learn of conversation from unexpected sources—say from architects or anarchists. Perhaps I do see conversation under every rock—what a delight to be learning so!

:- Doug.

Yes, No, Po, Random Juxtaposition, Honor your insights: I am surprised to uncover how much these have insinuated themselves into my everyday thinking. Undoubtedly too they have benefited or suffered—who can ever tell the difference?—from accretions.

:- Doug.

It is important to make up your own words, when the old ones are not up to the task you set them.

:- Doug.

What is the biggest mystery you still wonder about? What story could you think up to explain your wonder?

:- Doug.

Is contradiction necessary to conversation?

:- Doug.

When does a conversation open?

:- Doug.